''Shansitherium'' ("beast of
Shanxi
Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...
")
[Killgus, H., 1922. Die unterpliocaenen chinesischen Säugetierreste der Tafelschen Sammlung zu Tübingen (Doctoral dissertation)] is an extinct
genus
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of superficially
moose
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-like or
antelope
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-like
giraffids from the late
Miocene
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epoch
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of
Shanxi
Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...
Province,
China
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. They are closely related to the genus ''
Samotherium''.
Species

The genus consists of the following species:
* ''
Shansitherium fuguensis''
* ''
Shansitherium tafeli''
* ''
Shansitherium quadricornis''
[Bohlin, B., 1926. Die Familie Giraffidae mit besonderen Berucksichtgung der fossilen Formen aus China. ''Palaeontologia Sinica'', ser C. 4. The Geological Survey of China, Peking.]
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Prehistoric giraffes
Miocene mammals of Asia
Miocene Artiodactyla
Miocene genus extinctions
Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera
Fossil taxa described in 1889
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